Lulzsec is still sitting on News Corp emails

NINJA HACKERS Lulzsec might have retired, but its plundered data, including emails from the Sun newspaper, is still out there, according to one of its key members.

In a question and answer session carried out via Reddit, Anonymousabu, who has always been one of the most vocal members of Lulzsec, said that the Sun emails are still stored and can still be released.

The group was going to release the emails earlier this year, but as a police investigation was already underway it decided to keep them locked up to avoid interfering with an ongoing case.

"We think, actually we may not release emails from The Sun, simply because it may compromise the court case," Tweeted the AnonymousIRC account in July.

This reconsideration came after Anonymousabu had posted, "Sun/News of the world OWNED. We're sitting on their emails. Press release tomorrow."

This weekend, in a long chat on Reddit, he revisited the mails, explaining, "We got them stashed on a Chinese storage server. Alongside the dumps of a whole bunch of hits we did."

He added that the emails could be released, though he refused to say when. "With time for sure," he said. "There are a lot of interesting dumps we're sitting on due to timing." Other dumps include data from bank HSBC, although the hacker added that no "smoking guns" had been found in those documents.

As for his role in the now defunct Lulzsec, Sabu said that he was a hacker and security researcher and with ten years experience in that area he saw a rather different future for himself.

"Hopefully I'll be somewhere teaching," he added. "As for anonymous I see it spawning many organizations and political parties." µ